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Ethical Decision-Making and Institutional Support for ECMO and Ventilator Allocation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey of Designated Physicians at Japan’s Advanced Critical Care Centers

2025-08-13

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> <bold>Background</bold> During the global COVID-19 pandemic, many countries issued formal national or professional guidelines for the allocation of ECMO and ventilators. Although these guidelines were generally non-binding, they offered structured recommendations to support triage decisions. In contrast, Japan lacked even such formal policies, leaving decisions to individual advanced...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7126171/v1

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